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By Klancy Miller (2023)
[FROM BOOKLADY COOKS]
At Booklady Cooks, we love all the cookbooks — the old, ratty ones with foodstains and no pictures. The glossy art books that live on the coffee table. The little recipe boxes filled with your grandma’s favorites.
But what we love most are the stories behind the recipes.
Where did this dish come from?
Who cooked it first?
Who gathered around the table to eat it?
What were their lives like — their hopes, their heartaches, their dreams?
This book holds all of that.
Klancy Miller makes sure we know the Black women and femmes who built food writing and food work in this country — women who deserve as much recognition as Julia Child. Edna Lewis. B. Smith. Leah Chase. Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor. Lena Richards.
And then she brings us into the present, interviewing the contemporary women and femmes shaping how we experience food today — in restaurants, online, and in the pages of our cookbooks.
I made the luscious Baked Smoked Okra Dip by Jerrelle Guy of Chocolate for Basil — and my husband was lucky I shared it.
Jerrelle is an award-winning cookbook author, food stylist, recipe developer, and photographer. But just as compelling as her recipe is her story — what drives her, what shapes her work, and the life she’s building through food.
[FROM THE PUBLISHERS] *Winner of the 2024 IACP Cookbook Award for Literary or Historical Food Writing*
A must-have anthology of the leading Black women and femmes shaping today’s food and hospitality landscape—from farm to table and beyond—chronicling their passions and motivations, lessons learned and hard-won wisdom, personal recipes, and more.
Chef and writer Klancy Miller found her own way by trial and error—as a pastry chef, recipe developer, author, and founder of For the Culture magazine—but what if she had known then what she knows now? What if she had known the extraordinary women profiled within these pages—entrepreneurs, chefs, food stylists, mixologists, historians, influencers, hoteliers, and more—and learned from their stories?
Like Leah Penniman, a farmer using Afro-Indigenous methods to restore the land and feed her community; Ashtin Berry, an activist, sommelier, and mixologist creating radical change in the hospitality industry and beyond; or Sophia Roe, a TV host and producer showcasing the inside stories behind today’s food systems. Toni Tipton-Martin, Mashama Bailey, Carla Hall, Nicole Taylor, Dr. Jessica B. Harris . . . In this gorgeous volume these luminaries and more share the vision that drives them, the mistakes they made along the way, advice for the next generation, and treasured recipes—all accompanied by stunning original illustrated portraits and vibrant food photography.
In addition, Miller shines a light on the matriarchs who paved the way for today’s tastemakers—Edna Lewis, B. Smith, Leah Chase, Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, and Lena Richard.
These collective profiles are a one-of-a-kind oral history of a movement, captured in real time, and indispensable for anyone passionate about food.
NEW HARDCOVER